Recursivity: Portrait of a Jihadist

Recursivity: Portrait of a Jihadist

Jeff Shallit points out a very interesting story:

Andrea Elliott in the New York Times has this troubling story about Omar Hammami, a college boy turned Muslim extremist. It's definitely worth reading.
Clearly the path that took Hammami from Alabama, where he was raided, to Somalia, where he leads a rebel movement, is complicated and formed from multiple incidents in his life. But it is interesting to see the role played by religion, and in particular, Christianity. The rest of the post here.